We have Open Office on 3 machines, OS Ubuntu, versions 8.04, 9.10, and 10.04. All three versions of Ubuntu are set to the American - International keyboard and the character map shows all accented letters.

However, we do not have the accented letters showing up on all the versions of Open Office under the "insert" tool. They are showing up on one machine, but not another.

What are the correct settings for OO to be able to insert foreign accented letters?

You mean at Insert>Special Character? It would have to be a very small font not to have the usual European accented letters._________________OpenOffice 4.0.0 and LibreOffice 4.x.x on Fedora 20, Ubuntu 13.10, Windows 8.1 Preview (Triple Boot)

By small I meant the number of characters in it was so small it didn't include accented letters. What do you mean by "showing" the accented letters? Can you post some screenshots (on Imageshack or wherever)?_________________OpenOffice 4.0.0 and LibreOffice 4.x.x on Fedora 20, Ubuntu 13.10, Windows 8.1 Preview (Triple Boot)

It's OK, I think I know what I need to do. I've successfully got all the accents to show up on our two desktops by altering keyboard settings to US International on one desktop and UK International on the other (it has a UK keyboard).

Our third machine is a notebook, currently 5,000 miles away in Vienna. My husband is using it in the State Archive there and complaining he can only see the accents on the system character map, not the "insert special character" in OO.

I think that when I altered the keyboard setting on the notebook from US to US International, I failed to tick "apply systemwide".

What I see in the character list at Insert>Special Character is totally independent on my keyboard setting. Obviously the keyboard setting alters which characters I can type using the keyboard, that's what it's meant to do!_________________OpenOffice 4.0.0 and LibreOffice 4.x.x on Fedora 20, Ubuntu 13.10, Windows 8.1 Preview (Triple Boot)